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The Big Terrible Picture – The Secret World and Roman Ciphers

So I’ve been playing The Secret World, lately, and one of the investigations called The Big Terrible Picture had us crack a cipher that turned out to be offset to the left in the English alphabet, a classic Roman Cipher (aka a Caesar Cipher). I can’t believe they still put cool puzzles like this in MMOs, I haven’t seen anything like it outside of old adventure games. Here is the set of ciphered texts and their decrypted texts:

This is no longer the way the cipher works, it is now the *****SPOILER***** fold the alphabet in half and each letter corresponds with the one in the same position of the other half for example M is the 13th letter and Z is the 26th so M=Z and vice versa. *****SPOILER*****